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LOT 0121

Roman Marble Statue Fragment with Dog

2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

11 3/4 in. (13.9 kg, base: 30 cm long).

Trapezoidal in plan base fragment with figures carved in the round: tree with bands of horizontal ribbing; left foot, ankle and calf of a male wearing open-toed sandal and military-style boot, the upper part decorated with the skin of a lion cub; body of a dog sitting at heel beside the tree.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.

Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12578-232182.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Racinet, A., Le Costume Historique, 6 vols, Paris, 1883; Hottenroth, F., Il Costume, Le Armi, Gli Utensili dei Popoli Antichi e Moderni, Vols I–II, Rome, 1887–92; Vermeule, C.C., Hellenistic and Roman Cuirassed Statues, Berytus XIII, Copenhagen, 1959; D’Amato, R., Sumner, G.,Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier, from Marius to Commodus, 112BC-AD 192, London, 2009, fig.312; D’Amato, R., Roman Army Units in the Eastern Provinces (2), Oxford, 2022, p.17, relief of a soldier with dog from Tirana.

Footnotes

The military boot cothurnus worn here by a hunter or a military commander, was widely used by commanders of the Roman army, and sometimes by actors playing military heroes. Officers wore splendid closed cothurni of various colours, like those realised in blue leather and worn by an officer represented on a fresco from Stabiae (D’Amato-Sumner, 2009, p.13).

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LOT 0121

Roman Marble Statue Fragment with Dog

Sold for (Inc. bp): £12,350

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